Incubators Anonymous

[TherryChicken]

Hey guys!! So finally my incubator will be here monday !!! But i have a question, they sent me 40 coturnix quail eggs and my husband wants to hatch them can i set them with my chicken eggs? just set them a few days later and they will hatch together ??

and I am going to try dry hatch, in my house my humidity is sitting at 30 so would a dry hatch be okay??

thanks

I personally wont put chicken and quail together, im too afraid of something happening due to size difference

 

[choptank330]

It will just be for incubation not together after that

 

[ozexpat]

I personally wont put chicken and quail together, im too afraid of something happening due to size difference

put the quail eggs in a small mesh plastic basket for lockdown - or a ziplock container with lots of holes drilled in it and the lid

 

[ki4got]

I've kept chicks and quail together without issues... tho the new hatched quail do seem to drive the new chicks nuts at first with their zippy zooming around. LOL

 

[TherryChicken]

I've kept chicks and quail together without issues...  tho the new hatched quail do seem to drive the new chicks nuts at first with their zippy zooming around. LOL

lol thats funny

 

[TherryChicken]

put the quail eggs in a small mesh plastic basket for lockdown - or a ziplock container with lots of holes drilled in it and the lid

never thought of that

 

[Runawaylobster]

I just set up my eggs for the next consecutive hatch and i counted 72.... Jeez i have never set that many before. and none are Marans!!! now that's a first.

i have 3 left zipping from todays hatch and one that never pipped..

 

[DMRippy]

I just set up my eggs for the next consecutive hatch and i counted 72.... Jeez i have never set that many before. and none are Marans!!! now that's a first.

i have 3 left zipping from todays hatch and one that never pipped..

I feel pretty sure I have 3 doz or close coming your way..... both pens are laying pretty well. Should be about half Ams and half Marans.

 

[Runawaylobster]

I feel pretty sure I have 3 doz or close coming your way..... both pens are laying pretty well. Should be about half Ams and half Marans.

awesome!! I have 19 so far for you and another 2 days of collecting so should be a few more before i ship..

i'm so excited about your eggs

can't wait...


these leghorns are laying eggs like crazy i can't hatch enough to keep from filling up the refrig!!

 

[Joshua G]

I have 54 duck eggs in a hova bator 1588 and 34 chicken eggs in a still air incubator, I also have an egg turner for the 1588 and would like to use it so I don't have to turn so many eggs. But the egg turner only holds 41 eggs so I would have to put the extras in the still air Incubator. Should I put the extra duck eggs in the still air incubator or would that mess them up since it is 2 degrees warmer than the 1588?